Miracle In 100 Days

Live From Italy. The "honeymoon" is lasting much long. The longest honeymoon we suppouse.
1)The revolution of these 100 days depends in part from Mr. Veltroni, which simplified the Italian Politics with the elimination of the "large coalitions", in which communists, democrats, catholics and so on stayed together. So Mr. Berlusconi did the same, and his governement is composed by only two parties.
2)The "Justice" theme in Italy is very difficult to understand for the other nations. In Italy, people don't believe anymore to the justice, because of the political views of large part of the judges, because of the abuse of the blackmail (also for stupid thing like lovers and so on). Italians believe more in Mr. B. So if he goes against the judges, people stay with him.
3) The investments on highways, bridges (Messina!), factory is much easier for a coalition without the green parties.
4) The problem of the immigration is important for the Italians, and the ally of Mr. B (Lega Nord) takes care about these theme.
5) Berlusconi is an anomaly, like Italy. We are the anomaly... just saying: "It rains in the Alps... the World is isolated"

Just to mention one point, concerning law-enforcement the outstanding problems in Italy are the length of judicial proceedings, the uncertainty of punishment, and the persistence of organized crime in Southern Italy. The Berlusconi government(s) have never done miracles concerninge these issues. I think the author of the article should go beyond the surface, as Mr Berlusconi's top ability is to hide the substance with appearence; consider the act of sending soldiers on patrols: is a handful of soldiers really going to change the situation? It is more of a spectacular action, designed to draw consense from a not-critical-enough public. Italy's problem require long-term actions, not spectacular moves. For these reasons I am very skeptical about the future performance of Berlusconi's government.

This article is a blatant demonstration of how blatantly shallow some journalists can be just to sound right. Silvio has cleaned up the main streets of Naples, and may I ask where he has put the dirt.
I guess an approval ratiing of 55% based ion the support of cessasionnists in the north and neo.fascists in Rome is all that counts as far as the writer cares.
Saving himself from prosecution and his Tv stations from European law is deserving of praise from Newsweek.
Blaming all the problems of Italy on immigrants and harassing them is all Berlusconi has done in these 100 days. Have you asked how many legal immigrants have a valid residence permit in Italy? They have to cue for hours to pick up residence permits that have been in processing for a year and have to cue the very next day to renew them.
i guess with this article News Weeks has decided to give a ringing endorsement to racism and homofobia in Italy. Thanks News Week.

Those who believe King Silvio I has worked a miracle in 100 days simply don't live in Italy or have raw ham slices covering up their eyes! The suburbs of Naples are still covered in litter (only the downtown area having been cleaned) and security has certainly not increased thanks to a few hundreds of soldiers being sent to patrol major cities (in Milan, 350 soldiers for 2 million residents). In the meantime, Ratzinga Z and the catholic church have secured hold of this country's politics through a cryptocathofascist party that has clearly said gays are to have fewer rights than household pets! Before this article, I had a vague impression Newsweek was a one-horse magazine, now I have the certainty. Those defending King Silvio I must know they are being accomplices to a dangerous man who will cause this country to shut down just like Argentina a few years ago. Wait and see!

To all Newsweek readers (and especially to Newsweek journalist Jacopo Barigazzi, who sounds so Italian ...), please watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMSQSbdlkY
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iJspKDyg0E
I do not need to know Italian at all to understand what is the meaning of the videos
Cheers

Sam

You seem reluctant in your writing well of Berlusconi. "Cleaning up trash and harassing immigrants won't be enough": certainly not, but cleaning trash in Naples, you must admit, is a sort of miracle, and the trash is not hidden anywhere except in the head of those who insist that this operation has only been a maquillage. Besides this, you forgot a few things, for example the new rules regarding the public administration that restored - swiftly and miraculously - the health of about 20% absentees, about Alitalia not going to fall in the hands of its competitor, of the agreement being discussed with the banks to loosen the stranglehold on those who bought a house and obtained a bank loan in the past few years.

You seem reluctant in your writing well of Berlusconi. "Cleaning up trash and harassing immigrants won't be enough": certainly not, but cleaning trash in Naples, you must admit, is a sort of miracle, and the trash is not hidden anywhere except in the head of those who insist that this operation has only been a maquillage. Besides this, you forgot a few things, for example the new rules regarding the public administration that restored - swiftly and miraculously - the health of about 20% absentees, about Alitalia not going to fall in the hands of its competitor, of the agreement being discussed with the banks to loosen the stranglehold on those who bought a house and obtained a bank loan in the past few years.

100 days to save Naples, him self and his close friends.
The article forgets to mention the law to postpone judicial proceedings by a year, downgraded later to "at the discretion of the judge". and of course it forgets to mention the law about phone tapping and the rnegated ights of journalists to publish them. (see the fotball scandal that was possible only because of tapping - just to mention something you may have heard abroad)
100 days not for Italy but for himself, his trouble with the law and his prestige, some italians have benifited indirectly..

I wouldn't call it a miracle, he always does that when he goes to power......... question is why Italians can't see that?

the problem with Italy is that politics is a business, positions held by really old men (not women) who want to protect their personal interests and wealth and retire with a massive pension. We pay 43% in taxes so old politicians, and a lot of them, can live off our taxes...comfortably. Italy will not change because it is not in the best interest of a political system that is one of the slowest to move on economic reform. Berlusconi may be a lot of things, he may be wily and opportunistic, but at least he wants to pull Italy out of these dark ages of old-style Italian government to serve a bunch of overly paid, underworked, incompetent politicians. Bravo Silvio, continua a fare quello che stai facendo!

Maybe it was not a miracle, but succeeded in a very short time where in other years there have succeeded. Surely it is the beginning of change or rather of establishing clear rules. The time of cleverly (I hope) is coming to an end. Those who voted hope and want that.

Miracle?
But the author have visited the suburb of Naples?
Naples is more bigger that the main square
About the security, I live in Italy and don't see any change about security and I don't thing this is the problem with big priority now

The only change that is see is the rumors (in part already approved) about the cut in balance to the police(!), scientist research (already the last in Europe), school and safety of territory but this news don't arrive in the TV

Berlusconi is not the best, but it's very clear when he speaks. There isn't another cheif in Italy that can manage the nation....today, tomorrow may be...

Miracle? What kind of Miracle? The rubbish in Naples was moved to the surrounding of the city, and the rubbish is the news about a new Naples (see the irish indipendent: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/cleanup-claims-are-a-load-of-rubbish-1435663.html)

about security nothing changed, only a few claim, a different set of news on the TV (half owned by Berlusconi, half under control being the head of the govern) and at-voilá Italy "looks" better, but is actually the same.

How can you do this article without mentioning the laws again done by Berlusconi to stop his own processes in court that made the Govern busy 70% of the time for that first 100 days?